One day this past May, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a senior adviser to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, who left the presidential race just a few weeks before. As a candidate, Kasich declared in March that Trump was “really not prepared to be president of the United States,” and the following month he took the highly unusual step of coordinating with his rival Senator Ted Cruz in an effort to deny Trump the nomination. But according to the Kasich adviser (who spoke only under the condition that he not be named), Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?How is this not going to be a huge problem for Trump? The Democrats should have a field day with this information.
When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?“Making America great again” was the casual reply.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
I Can't Say I'm Surprised By This . . . .
. . . but holy shit:
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Looks like this is spreading in the blogosphere a bit:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/21/1550579/-I-Can-t-Believe-This-NYT-Article-About-Trump-Is-Not-A-Bigger-Story-Scandal
Yeah, it brings up a ton of questions. What if De Facto President Pence and Donald don't agree?
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